NASA has quietly taken a major step toward crewed missions to Mars by selecting four people to live and work in a sealed, 3D-printed habitat for 378 days. The mission is designed to mimic the ...

Four volunteers are spending a year in NASA's 3D-printed Mars habitat, simulating life on the Red Planet. This mission, ...

“This is a really important operational evaluation of human health and performance that NASA is doing in preparation to land the first humans on Mars. In CHAPEA, we mimic what is the Mars surface ...

A new emphasis on Mars exploration was clear from the very beginning of the second Trump administration. “We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the ...

NASA’s Mars Dune Alpha is a full-scale habitat designed to simulate life on Mars and test human endurance for future missions ...

A view inside the sandbox portion of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Analog, where research volunteers participate in simulated walks on the surface of Mars. NASA is not quite sending astronauts to ...

The White House scheme to reshape NASA by slashing its funding could jeopardize future human flights to Mars. Shown here is NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft - one of the three Mars orbiters set to ...

Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog is the fancy term American agency NASA uses to describe a program meant to completely cut off a group of people from the outside world, in an attempt to ...

Missions across the final frontier could die as a result of the proposed cuts to NASA’s budget made by President Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported Sunday. In his fiscal year 2026 budget ...

The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE is the first UC Berkeley-led planetary mission. Its two identical satellites will provide an unprecedented stereo view of Mars’ magnetosphere. Mapping the ionosphere and space ...